Good one, Martin! After starting it, I understand why you had straight pipes on your grain truck. It sounds pretty mean!
So today I started it up again. I found my problem with the high idle was just the stop screw on the back of the carb was screwed all the way in. I backed it out about halfway and now it sounds really nice. I only ran it for about a minute today, then shut it off because I wasn't getting oil to the rockers. I assembled them with lots of assembly lube so they wouldn't run dry, but I'm wondering why oil isn't making it up there. The gauge in the cab came up to 15 psi after a little bit, but still no oil at the rockers. Could part of the reason be it's trying to pump straight 30 weight oil and it's 15 degrees outside? Should I have just run it a little longer? Or maybe place a heat lamp under the oil pan to try and warm it up a bit?
Thanks!


1951 Chevrolet 6400